bq. _For months and months, all through Hillary Clinton’s losing campaign for the Presidency, my colleague Andrew Sullivan insisted over and over again that his furious anti-Hillary partisanship was in fact a defense of authentic feminism . . .. [Y]ou’d think that Andrew would confine his attacks on Palin to critiquing her record and mocking her lack of experience, rather than, say, posting emails accusing her of being a bad mother for accepting the nomination, snickering over her children’s names, and razzing her as a bimbo and a “trophy candidate.”_

Considering that Andrew Sullivan once sent out an e-ad urging young boys to go “bareback” with him, I’m not surprised that he finds Sarah Palin too unsexy for the job, now that she hasn’t had her Downs Syndrome son chopped up.

Andrew ought to consider that there are millions of NRA members out here in America who love Sarah Palin and hate him.

bq. _I think the coverage of Sarah Palin to date – *by colleagues I used to respect* and publications I normally admire – at least partially vindicates this theory about the reception that would greet the kind of GOP I’d like to see. Which is a sobering thought, to say the least._